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JIRA Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Jobin Kuruvilla
Book Image

JIRA Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Jobin Kuruvilla

Overview of this book

JIRA provides issue and project tracking for software development teams to improve code quality and the speed of development. With the new version of JIRA, you can create your own JIRA plugins and customize the look and feel of your JIRA UI easier than ever. JIRA Development Cookbook , Third Edition, is a one-stop resource to master extensions and customizations in JIRA. This book starts with recipes about simplifying the plugin development process followed by recipes dedicated to the plugin framework. Then, you will move on to writing custom field plugins to create new field types or custom searchers. You will also learn how to program and customize workflows to transform JIRA into a user-friendly system. With so much data spanning different projects, issues, and so on, we will cover how to work on reports and gadgets to get customized data according to our needs. At the end of the book, you will learn how to customize JIRA by adding new tabs, menus, and web items; communicate with JIRA via the REST APIs; and work with the JIRA database.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
JIRA Development Cookbook Third Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Retrieving custom field details from a database


In the previous recipe, we saw how to retrieve the standard fields of an issue from the database. In this recipe, we will see how to retrieve the custom field details of an issue.

All the custom fields in JIRA are stored in the customfield table, as we have seen while modifying the custom field types. Some of these custom fields, such as select fields and multi-select fields, can have different options configured and they can be found in the customfieldoption table.

For each custom field, there can be a set of contexts configured. These contexts specify the projects or a list of issue types the field is associated with. For each such context, an entry is made in the fieldconfigscheme table with a unique id. For each fieldconfigscheme, there will be entries in the configurationcontext and fieldconfigschemeissuetype tables, configurationcontext holding the projects the field is associated with in the relevant context, and fieldconfigschemeissuetype...